The fall of KDE?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Nov 19 17:30:21 UTC 2008


nepal google wrote:

> On Wed 19 November 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:

>> It depends what you're using for email - if it's not
>> kmail, then it doesn't use the wallet, but if it is
>> kmail, your passwords are being stored insecurely (oh,
>> actually, that could have changed in KDE4 - in 3.5 they
>> were stored in kmailrc)
> 
> but they are not directly viewable, they only show as a
> bunch of squares, btw, yes I am using KMail.

OK, so there's some kind of encryption - there wasn't always.

> Well I've got it set up and activated, I went and reentered
> my email account passwords, all 5, but it only recorded two
> of them, 

That sounds vaguely familiar.  It _should_ get them all the first time, 
obviously, but I seem to remember having to enter some more than once.  
It's that "training" issue, again :-(

-- 
derek





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